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As Associate Administrator for Space Flight at NASA, William Readdy has spent much of the last year addressing Agency plans for future Shuttle missions in the wake of the Columbia accident.

By Lynda Rutledge When I first started working for the Air Force, I had a hard time understanding how we make our source selections.

By Ray Morgan One of the great perks I looked forward to when I turned sixteen was being able to give up my paper route and get a regular job.

By Scott Tibbitts At 1 a.m. the phone rang, waking my wife and me. Karla, whose husband Kurt worked for our company, explained that Kurt had not come home from work that night. She was worried, and wanted to know if I had any idea where he might be.

By Freddie Douglas III After a long day of travel, I found myself in a hotel elevator. I had recently graduated from NASA’s Accelerated Learning Option (ALO) at MIT, and I was proudly wearing my new school T shirt and baseball hat.

By Jack Shue To fill the need for engineers and scientists of the future, we at NASA need to start attracting youths to these fields now.

By John Newcomb Probably one of the toughest, most gut-wrenching decisions I have ever witnessed on a project was the one involving the end-to-end test for the Viking lander.

By Rick Obenschain I was managing the Earth Observing Systems (EOS) platforms project at Goddard Space Flight Center, and I wasn’t looking for a new job.

By Rudy Aquilina We had stepped outside the hangar at Kennedy Space Center to prepare for the return of Columbia, which was carrying our flight experiments.